Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-09-07

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LozDoH. Sept e.-Ths 6sandard says:
sThs sad similarity bslussn tie ExsSsr
thsasFe IRE end pfeyiuua di@nterg cue.
Reste ths euipable disregard of he
teachings Of expaEisnas.n
The Nnas saysi @Tia safe % asy thst
one eReo9 ok this aufnI disaster viii Be
. general laW governing the eunstrua-
ton and management of pahlic places
thFouRhouf ths kfnadom. After this
acoident and that of The Opega Goa
iQue. 81 PARA, We enQht surely 20 re-
qutfe no more warninasr
MoarE4 WeaEzna RsuRrn.
LomnoH. GepA G.--The Victims b. tha
barninR e ths Theater ROYAL las1 nlahf
Weee mostly woFkiaa. people. As soon
began searching fer bodies. Tha stair
Way leading 10 che gallery vas literally
pAoked with bodies, while o. the head
Of the stairs thsEe we're scores o. osherg
ptIed On top Of one another. The M
fortunate vEoaims had rushed 40 tha
dOoF when the aInrm vas given, bat
fousd the stairway blocked and escsps
s4t OF. In shoFa time the hamsS had
es.~-A-1 $500 seA~J @~A9A49 M42-
rible deash.
Rnuuz nuHBM.
There we're pitifal sBsnss IN the vseln-
ny of the burned thsatsr this mognina
aa The friends and selniiona Of the SUD-
poBad victims waited the FecoEaxy of /
the bodies. In many oases fasheFI and /
mothers both peFiahed, cad nunogoua /
children are thca lsfe without means of /
Support. Several bodies we're barnod |
90 THAI only Q small eindee remained. |
The number OK peFsons severely injured /
b sixty. L e feared that TIE deaths
will reach f10.
Monn BoBEzs pIsuovEnxp.
u is asoeFtalned that there we're 800
psrsoas oeeopying seats IN The gallsry,
alzo OF these 100 Lost their lives. The
search for boaies still eoes %. 4 a
very probable that The total dnaths wiIl |
never Be asoeEtalnsd owing 10 she faol
that many bodies we're oomploteiy cal
einsd. Two sails of the ntahles bsiona-
ing 20 the hotel ndiolniuq are nIlsd with |
the remains shal q u impossible 10 iden-
tify. Mcst Of the klllod we're adults,
and ehishy men. bat feW childssn par
isho0.
More boaIsshavs bean taksn from the
ruins. The ohaEred remains Of twenty
persons weEs discovered Ia ona heap. a
mother, father aBd child we're found L
slasDed in enc eE1hFaee.
cAum on xMn Loss on Lun.
The eonatruetion Of ths saIlery sialr-
saso accounts for tbs nreat losB ef life,
Half wag down the diaht there vas Q
shaEp anglia. TIE hFBt persons Who lef1
he gallery aot past safely, bat several
Of those Who followed weEa ehrOwn and
lammed into the nngla and WaEo unable
70 sxtEieaie themselves, owina 10 The
pressure from behind. The staircase at
lhis point waz eneetually blocked, and
here vas no other Way of escape The +,
leena-shifteF SAYS the hso etAKteN amofa
ssme cause which became iRnited. Ths
dsmes spread % she scenes Of which The
staae wA1 unusually full, owing 10 pre-
paratlous for produoinQ q pantemima.
The audience numbered 800 persons.
nzMAzxS MAnoLxD.
10 nearly every case the ciothinQ had
been torn oR ne victims. From nany
d the bodies limbs we're Kisslna, and
he remains showed eyidanoe that they
had been Wrsaohed Of. Several whole
families numberina frsu tuo 10 eight
psfsons lost thsif lives.
eKn MArrzn N Pknx1AnEuIT.
LoEDon, sspa. 6.--In tbs Housa Of
Oommons today, Mr.. Matthews, Home
Secretary, aid the calamity e. EHs1ef
shswsd she necessity Of Iaaislatien 10
lhe nlattsF and tbe gUvsRnment ln-
tended 10 deal vita NE oubieet. The
lnQnesl ever NE victims VS. begun 70
Dag. ls vas impossible 70 faeBitfy
many Of the bodiss Ths Jury simply |
viewed the remains. A pzbilg funeral
viii BE- heid tomoEruw.